Precision 7510 Owner's Thread

Thanks for the prompt reply again!

I plan on watch movies on it on spare time. I have Yamaha reference speakers for audio editing and referencing.

thanks again!

 

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interesting. if i had to guess, the bios is check checking the sata first, then looks for uefi drives that are bootable. so you could at the very least format the sata drive so the bios does not see a boot flag there, and use it for storage. however there may be a bios setting that changes uefi/legacy boot to just uefi. maybe that would do it

 

Had it set to UEFI. Ttied setting drive mode to AHCI from RAID. Also for some reason the BIOS didn't even show the M.2 drive, nor could I see it in Windows, till I removed the HDD. I guess it didn't matter anyway as I had the 850EVO already, and already threw the HDD in and enclosure to use a a recovery disk once all my apps are installed.

Interestingly, I was experiencing the same slower-than-expected performance from the 950pro that the 5510 users had, till I tried their trick switching the drive mode from RAID to AHCI, by holding down Shift before restarting, then xhangw the setting in BIOS, boot to Safe mode then back to normal, and experienced the same speed gains, at least using the Samsung Magician benchmark.

When I didn't use Shift+Restart, and then change from RAID to AHCI, the computer would try to boot to the empty SSD then I get the BSOD which BTW seems more pleasant with the nicer font and emoji.... LOL except in this forum there's nowhere that explains this procedure... grrrrrrrrr

 

haha emoji bsod? what'll they think of next. that is a very strange procedure to me. good to have a heads up, thanx

 

no additional drivers needed? Guys with XPS15 needed some drivers from dell home site for BIOS to recognize new NVMe M.2 drive...

 

My machine shipped about a month after the XPS 15s so it's possible the updated drivers were already loaded. That was also in the itemized list in the order page...

 

I purchased a 7510 and it arrived today (expected on 1/4/2016, so a bit earlier than I expected). i7, plus smart card and a few other things, backlit keyboard, and better matte display. Hardware is wonderful; it's a real pleasure to open it up and peek inside.

Unfortunately, I had to do so because the second time I tried to boot it today, I got nothing. Pulled battery, held power button, unplugged coin-cell, blah blah blah. Nothing.

Submitted an inquiry, we'll see what they say and offer.

 

Second REPORT here of this. I'm thinking the power switch is to blame. The soft touch to turn on is kind of cool, but maybe not as reassuring as a mechanical switch....

Been fortunate so far only issue with me being setting up the M.2 SSD

 

Beware that Hyper-V is said to cause some latency undesirable in a DAW.
(As it essentially virtualises the main OS too.)

 

In recent years, the other business-laptop lines have been cheapened and hobbled down to the point that more people than just engineers flock toward workstations (which, in turn, come relatively cheaper than they used to). Mobile workstations (and also gaming laptops—for those who do not need a Quadro or FirePro and can get away with silly designs) have become the last bastion of no-compromise laptops, whatever the use case.